Three-dimensional optical correlator with general complex filters

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 35, 2000, Pages 6561-6572

  Li, Youzhi ^a   Rosen, Joseph ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CORRELATORS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL FILTERS;

COMPLEX FILTERS;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 0000418857     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006561     Document Type: Article

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